“Good morning to all and Happy Labor Day. There’s obviously a lot of things to be pleased with from Saturday, and I know I said it in the postgame, but again, our student section, band and cheerleaders, fans in general, were incredible. I thought that spoke volumes to the people we’re trying to convince to come join us, just that Auburn is a special, special place. Just not a lot of places in a game like that, you see that type of atmosphere throughout the entire four quarters. So thankful so much for our people, and especially those students and they had to be there, what, six hours or so? That’s pretty incredible support. So thankful for that.
“Lot of good things. Monday’s the truth (meeting) for our team, here in a few minutes, when I meet with them. Defensively, I thought the effort was really, really good. I thought they ran to the football. I thought we tackled fairly well, and we were 9-of-14 three-and-outs. We limited the explosive plays. So I thought all of that was positive. Special teams were really positive. Had a punt return, an explosive punt return, and then had a blocked punt for a TD. The field position battle, we won. Effort was good, and we played a lot of kids on special teams, and so that was really good. Obviously, the seven touchbacks and field goal were efficient, so Towns (McGough) did a really nice job for us there. Offensively, we started fast and played physical up front, thought the effort was good there. There were 16 explosive plays, 9.8 yards per carry. Only had one penalty on offense. And our red zone scoring was really good. So lot of positives to take from there. Obviously, we have some negatives too, that I’m sure you’ll ask me about, and we can go over. But it was a good film to watch for our first game. Obviously, some things to clean up and get better on. Biggest thing, two turnovers, we just can’t do that, and we’ve got to get the ball. Has to be a priority.”
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